Download logo The United States reaffirms its commitment to the people of the Republic of the Congo following a peaceful presidential election day on March 21. We are also saddened by the passing of Guy Brice Parfait Kolelas and extend our condolences to all Congolese mourning his recent death. As electoral institutions tabulate the results, […]
Actions against Opposition Members in Zimbabwe
Download logo The United States is following events in Zimbabwe closely, including the troubling moves on March 17 to strip Movement for Democratic Change Alliance (MDC Alliance) Vice President Tendai Biti and other MDC Alliance members of their elected seats in parliament. Since March 2020, parliamentary maneuvers supported by the Zimbabwean government have led to the ouster of 39 MDC […]
United States announces $14.5 Million to prepare Egyptian University Students for Careers
The U.S. government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), will be providing an additional $14.5 million to prepare Egyptian public university students for career success. The funding, which brings total U.S. government investment in Career Centers to $33 million, will establish 30 Centers for Career Development at 22 public universities throughout Egypt by […]
Green banks and national climate funds have a key role in mobilizing funds for low-carbon, climate-resilient development in Africa: report
Download logo The African Development Bank and the Climate Investment Funds [CIF (https://bit.ly/3vSPNtq)] have joined forces (https://bit.ly/2OQ4QU9) to produce a study of the role of green banks and national climate change funds in mobilizing finance to support low-carbon, climate-resilient development in Africa. The ground-breaking study (https://bit.ly/2OY4mv7), released on Tuesday 23 March, is expected to underpin […]
FAO builds stronger veterinary diagnostic laboratories in West and Central Africa
Download logo National laboratory systems play a crucial role in preventing, detecting and responding to health threats. An integral part of these systems, veterinary diagnostic laboratories are at the centre of veterinary services’ control programmes for transboundary animal diseases (TADs). TADs, including zoonosis, can have major impacts on economies, trade and food security. They can easily […]
UNHCR outraged by deadly attack against displaced population in Western Niger
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, condemns in the strongest terms the attacks in western Niger that killed 137 people, many of them already displaced after having fled earlier violence. On Sunday afternoon, armed assailants on motorbikes attacked the villages of Intazayane, Bakorat and Wirsnat in Niger’s Tahoua region, some 50 kilometres from the Malian border. […]
Stabilization in the Lake Chad Basin: Rebuilding Communities Across 7 Impact Areas
Download logo Stabilizing a region ravaged by conflict is no easy feat, particularly when that region remains a hotspot for violent acts perpetrated by extremist groups. Approximately 10.7 million people in the Lake Chad Basin region (parts of Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria) are directly affected by this crisis, and close to a quarter of […]
Special Envoy for Libya arrives in Tripoli, holds meetings with Presidency council, Prime Minister and Foreign Minister
The UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Ján Kubiš arrived yesterday in Tripoli to continue his engagements with the new interim Government of National Unity and various Libyan actors to fast-track the implementation of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) Roadmap, including mobilizing the required support […]
The Need for Russia-Africa Dialogue agenda set for the International Interparty meeting with the energy sector to play a role
Over the last decade, Russia’s sphere of influence in Africa has been broadening. Among, peace, security and investment, natural resources have been at the forefront of many Russia-Africa discussions and continues to grow as interests rise to the development of interparty cooperation of the United Russia Party with African countries. Due to the further developments […]
Mozambique: Cabo Delgado displacement could reach 1 million, UN officials warn
Senior leaders with the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, warned on Monday of the urgent need to address the growing humanitarian crisis in the Cabo Delgado province in northern Mozambique, where an ongoing insurgency has uprooted hundreds of thousands of people. Assistant High Commissioners Gillian Triggs and Raouf Mazou were fresh from the country, where they heard shocking […]